rub one's face with a brass candlestick

== English == === Verb === rub one's face with a brass candlestick (third-person singular simple present rubs one's face with a brass candlestick, present participle rubbing one's face with a brass candlestick, simple past and past participle rubbed one's face with a brass candlestick) (colloquial, archaic) To (prepare to) be very brazen or impudent. ==== References ==== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary